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Title: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: whitetop on April 14, 2012, 08:12:04 AM
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The budget PC aimed at bringing back programming is ready to ship after various manufacturing delays

RS Components out of Oxford confirmed taking delivery of several Raspberry Pi systems, which will ship out to the first group of customers in order of when they registered their interest in the systems on the RS and Allied Electronics websites, the company said.

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"We are delighted to have the first batch of fully compliant products in our warehouse and to be able to invite the first wave of customers who registered for a Raspberry Pi to place their orders from this initial stock," Glenn Jarrett, Head of Electronics Marketing at RS, said in a statement. "There has been a great deal of anticipation for Raspberry Pi since its launch at the end of February, and it is important that we provide a delivery guarantee to customers when they place their order."

There has been a lot of interest in Raspberry Pi systems due to their small size and ultra low cost. The Model A version ships with 256MB of onboard RAM, one USB port, Broadcom BCM2835 SoC with an ARM processor clocked at 700MHz and Videocore 4 GPU, onboard audio, HDMI output, 3.5mm jack, RCA video, and an SD card slot. The Model B version sports an extra USB port and an Ethernet port.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: zack247 on April 14, 2012, 07:14:41 PM
ive heard a lot about these things, they seem pretty promising.
i might eventually get one to install in my car, itd make for a reasonably powerful and quiet little carputer.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: FOOKz™ on April 14, 2012, 07:51:13 PM
That is like a smaller, better, modern Macintosh II computer :)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: RyanF on April 15, 2012, 11:53:43 AM
I wonder what it runs for the OS or if it even comes with one
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Demonboy on April 15, 2012, 03:54:37 PM
ryan it comes w/o an os... u DL a linux distro from the pi website or any ARM linux distro pretty much my flavor of choice is and always will be BT5 but thts for obvious reasons i cannot state in this forum as told to me by matt but yea its a nice lil computer thts going in my truck on a 10" monitor mounted indash for passengers to play... ima make it a mame arcade machine by default but have it to where i can run other things as well
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: zack247 on April 15, 2012, 06:30:34 PM
i wonder if we'd be able to get some sort of GPS navigation system set up with one of these?
im also curious about the price tag, how much are they going to be selling for?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: FOOKz™ on April 15, 2012, 07:23:38 PM
... yea its a nice lil computer thts going in my truck on a 10" monitor mounted indash for passengers to play... ima make it a mame arcade machine by default but have it to where i can run other things as well

that would be sick!
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Bonz on April 16, 2012, 12:25:29 AM
yay i should be getting my shipped by next week then.... also i'd like to point out hat i tried to make a post about this bad boy in nov-dec but as Matt can contest it caused some problems with the forums (apparently i copied some code that messed up the site for a day)  woopsie
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Demonboy on April 16, 2012, 01:27:01 PM
the porice tag is 30 bucks roughly :P very cheap
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: whitetop on April 16, 2012, 02:21:39 PM
if i find one ill be buying one just for the quiet internet surfing
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Kool1zero on April 17, 2012, 12:15:15 PM
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi (http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi)
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi (http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi)

lol look at the est ship dates on element 14
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: hyper999 on April 18, 2012, 08:53:04 AM
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi (http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi)
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi (http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi)

lol look at the est ship dates on element 14

I cant remember where but there was recently a press release from element 14 saying that those dates are tottaly incorrect and a mistake made by their stock system or something like that....
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Tracey on June 22, 2012, 07:21:08 AM
There is this too.. and you can atleast buy it now instead of waiting on the Raspberry 3 month back-order wait.

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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255837/this_tiny_pc_runs_linux_and_android_40and_costs_just_74.html (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255837/this_tiny_pc_runs_linux_and_android_40and_costs_just_74.html)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: 3D0kassiah on June 22, 2012, 08:15:26 AM
sweet litte machine  :tup: maybe i can set one of these up in m living room so when people come over they dont have to use my laptop or desktop lol
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Tracey on June 22, 2012, 08:50:09 AM
so when people come over they dont have to use my laptop or desktop lol

You got that right!
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: 3D0kassiah on June 22, 2012, 09:18:58 AM
my sister came over to use my laptop once within five mins i was getting blue screens of death like seriously yup im getting one those badboys
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Tracey on June 22, 2012, 11:29:33 AM
my sister came over to use my laptop once within five mins i was getting blue screens of death like seriously yup im getting one those badboys

LMAO my cousin did the same thing to Matts old laptop within 5 minutes of use too..still shocked he didnt kill her



I was looking at these, the sony google tv and the logitech revue.. if Matt likes the revue, I think we are gonna go with that, it has a pretty snazzy keyboard :)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: toadzilla on June 22, 2012, 09:07:28 PM
LMAO my cousin did the same thing to Matts old laptop within 5 minutes of use too..still shocked he didnt kill her



I was looking at these, the sony google tv and the logitech revue.. if Matt likes the revue, I think we are gonna go with that, it has a pretty snazzy keyboard :)
if hes looking to grab the revue cheap enough i got one that i cant use here due to it being an american product
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Tracey on June 23, 2012, 06:41:06 AM
if hes looking to grab the revue cheap enough i got one that i cant use here due to it being an american product

Dang it Toad, bought one last night from amazon.com.. You should list it on here, I would've bought it from you if I knew you had one sooner lol
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: toadzilla on June 23, 2012, 07:30:19 AM
Dang it Toad, bought one last night from amazon.com.. You should list it on here, I would've bought it from you if I knew you had one sooner lol
i have it listed in my junk thread lol i just havent bumped it lately
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi shipping
Post by: Demonboy on June 23, 2012, 11:23:38 PM
toad if u still have it i should have the money either tomorrow or the day after hmu on FB and we can arrange a sale on here
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